Forget Sarah Palin: Michele Bachmann getting ready to run

SFGate, Politics Blog,Joe Garofoli: Forget Sarah Palin: Michele Bachmann getting ready to run

While political geeks are a-Twitter about Sarah Palin possibly jumping into the GOP primary, the only other female Republican prez candidate is getting ready to actually do the actual grunt work of campaigning. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann will launch her presidential campaign in her home state of Iowa next month.

Whooooooooosh! That's the sound of another piece of convention wisdom getting flushed. The one that goes like this: If Palin jumps in, Bachmann doesn't.

Bachmann told a group of Iowans Thursday night that she was going to make the announcement in her Iowa hometown of Waterloo. Ouch. Starting a campaign in Waterloo?....somewhere Napoleon is shaking his head saying "C'est un BAD IDEA."

On Thursday, Bachmann told Iowa's Polk County GOP's annual Robb Kelley Dinner -- via speakerphone because she was in DC to vote to extend the Patriot Act -- that she was in it to win it. (OK, maybe not that strong. Sorry, still got "American Idol" on the brain.)

"When we make that all-important announcement --- which will happen in the month of June --- that announcement. I am pleased to tell you tonight, will be made in Iowa," Bachmann said over speakerphone. "And I will also tell you that announcement will be made in the city where I was born, in Waterloo."

Bachmann says she has already hired staff in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, saying "We have every aspect that we need in this effort."

Remembering that Bachmann once said that the Founding Fathers --- several of whom owned slaves -- worked tirelessly to end slavery, we have no word on whether Bachmann's first staff hires include a history tutor.
WELL, "WORKING TIRELESSLY" MIGHT HAVE PUT IT TOO STRONGLY, BUT QUITE A FEW OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS DID INTEND TO RELEASE THEIR SLAVES, ALBEIT AFTER THEIR DEATHS...

AND OF COURSE ANY HISTORY TUTOR BETTER MAKE IT CLEAR TO BACHMAN - AND EVERYONE ELSE - THAT SLAVERY EXISTED FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME - IT'S EVEN PRAISED IN THE BIBLE, AND THAT THERE IS STILL BLACK ON BLACK SLAVERY GOING ON IN AFRICA....

AND MORE TO THE POINT, DOES BACHMAN KNOW THE US HAS ONLY 50 STATES, AND THAT IT'S 2011? I THINK SO!